Joshua Danish

In addition to the main paper and symposia tracks, ISLS Annual Meeting also welcomes your proposals for Interactive Tools and Demos, Workshops and Tutorials, and Doctoral/Early Career/Mid-Career/Alt-Academic Workshop. Deadline Nov 15. See more at 2026.isls.org/calls-for-pr...

Samantha G. Daley Dr. Samantha G. Daley joins podcast host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss her Educational Psychologist article, “Universal design of educational psychology? Improving theory and application by focusing on s

Universal Design for Learning is a great way to think about supporting learners - but did you know it's also a great way to think about doing research? In this podcast episode, Dr. Samantha Daley talks about her wonderful article on using UDL to inform research.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Do Pedagogical Agents Enhance Student Motivation? Unraveling the Evidence Through Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review The use of pedagogical agents (PAs) as learning tools within digital learning environments is rising. Previous research shows that PAs can aid learning across various domains and age groups, but…

"Our results...highlight the importance of PA design...to use PAs as a motivational tool, it is not enough to simply include a character, but rather to think carefully about its function in the learning environment, its purpose in the learning process, and its design." #PsychSciSky #EduSky

CREA + ITEL Celebration

You're Invited ✉️

Join us on October 23 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. for a celebration of our Campus-Recognized Centers:

🔸 Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA)
🔹 Center for Research and Innovation in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ITEL)

RSVP by 10/15: https://bit.ly/4o04CVf

Journal of Digital History The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered arti...

Excited to share this article co-authored with @kalanicraig.bsky.social where we describe our process of Design Based Humanities Research (DBHR), combining the tradition of DBR from Learning Sciences with Digital History and Design methods journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/notebook-...

This is a friendly reminder that research paper submissions for the ISLS 2026 Annual Meeting are due in one month - October 5. You can see the full calls on the in-progress website now: 2026.isls.org

100% agree … anyone who doesn’t understand all this and recognize by now that some kinds of work lead to more articles than others that are also valuable shouldn’t be evaluating tenure cases. (No recent letters leading to this observation, but past stories aplenty).

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Well, this is a big deal in my neck of the woods. If you typically applied to NSF EDU AISL, CSforAll, DRK-12, TD, or CORE, this is your new opportunity. Proposals accepted at any time. Expected awards up to $750k for up to 3 years. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Damn the landscape for educators this year is bleak. Don’t get bogged down in business as usual. Take care of your students, and yourself, and direct the brilliant energy and passion of your students towards things that matter—whatever that might be for your community.

What is learning, for whom, and to what end? An overview

Exciting! At the risk of self promoting… Jasmine and I thought a lot about how this might play a role in early theory courses as we wrote it: nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publicati...

ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers June 15-19, 2026 | Irvine, California, USA Dear Learning Sciences Community, The 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting once again brings together the Learning Sciences community as a whole by combining two…

The ISLS 2026 First Call for Papers is available on the ISLS website now! A dedicated annual meeting website is coming soon.
www.isls.org/news/isls-20...

An hour of trying to get anything useful out of the XFinity AI assistant regarding my internet connection not working has confirmed all of my fears about AI in education or really anything that matters. I would have found a magic 8-ball more useful.

Back when I was in the industry, they knew this and catered to it. That’s why I decided to go back to school and study learning… the rest is history but I’m glad!

Thanks!! I’ve learned from you that entire time too, so looking forward to more of that too!!

Thank you!!

We had a workshop in IN the last few days and like 5 people said “Oh you are so lucky to be working with Cynthia now!!” Yes!

Thrilled to share that as of August 16, I’ll be a Professor and Department Head in the Curriculum and Instruction Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Super excited for this wonderful opportunity with a truly amazing community!!

Photo of a tabby cat laying on a black jacket looking like she's leaning on her arm sassily

"I don't always barf, but when I do, it's on your favorite jacket."

Realizations & re-mediations: Enabling expression and interaction in collective embodied activities for children with disabilities This study examines the design, implementation, and iterative refinement of a technology-facilitated embodied learning environment within Camp Express…

Let's make our work a little more inclusive 🤍

Excited to finally share "Realizations & re-mediations: Enabling expression and interaction in collective embodied activities for children with disabilities" in Learning, Culture, & Social Interaction 🙌

Shoutout to @jdanish.bsky.social for the support!

So excited for folks to get to read this!!

#chatchemistry
#iteachchemistry
#chemistry

If you are a learning scientist who happened to miss the Closing Session of #isls25, you might want to know that the submission deadline for #isls26 is expected to be October 5–significantly earlier than in years past.

📢 pass it on!

That is really powerful!!

Come hang out at our ANNUAL ILSSA SOCIAL on Thursday, June 12th, 19:00-22:00 at 🍻 The Thirsty Scholar 🍻

🍕 Free pizza available & drinks available for purchase 🍕

Add us on Whova, join the Discord via bit.ly/ILSSA, and share with your travel buddies! See you soon!

Goals in Motion: How Emergent Embodied Goals Support Elementary Students’ Mechanistic Reasoning in Collaborative Modeling Activities This paper explores how students navigate individual and collective goals in collective embodied modeling activities as part of an elementary science curriculum on states of matter. We propose the ...

Excited to share this new article co-authored with @zhoum56.bsky.social and @morganavickery.bsky.social: “Goals in Motion: How Emergent Embodied Goals Support Elementary Students’ Mechanistic Reasoning in Collaborative Modeling Activities" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apple Watch apparently doesn’t realize it is a bit odd to just stand up in the middle of a dissertation defense. Sorry … gonna keep sitting here.

Amazing! Any way to buy a print or a high res file to print? Thanks!

Brb, making a “memes my collaborators have made of me” section to my CV!

So true!

Meme on left depicts an angry frog with a laptop and reads “I hope this email finds you … ore I do” and the one on the right reads “I plead guilty to first degree silly goosery” and depicts a goose in knight’s armor.

Member of my team made amazing 2-meme descriptions of the entire lab. Here is mine! I’m pretty happy with this being how I am viewed. To be clear, I am mostly sure the email one is because I send emails to protect the team, not because I email the team angry emails!!